The bikini diet plan: food you can eat
Woman and home magazine's bikini diet has simple rules and many foods you can happily tuck into.
- Fresh veg and salad ingredients - anything with a high water and fibre content will speed your weight loss.
- Fresh fruit - any kind is fine, but fruit with a high colour is really good for you. Red/blue berries top the list.
- Avoid dairy - try rice or soya milk on porridge or in tea. The odd blob of soya yogurt is fine on porridge too.
- Good grains - whole brown rice, brown rice noodles, 100 per cent rye crispbreads and rice cakes are ok, but keep them to breakfast and lunch only.
- Protein - choose fish, eggs, chicken, turkey, lean, fat-trimmed lamb or beef, lentils, chickpeas, tofu or Quorn.
- Water - two litres a day is essential. Herbal teas can be part of it. Green, Rooibos and Yerba Mate teas are said to help with weight loss.
- Good dressings - use the dressings in our recipes instead of the bottled stuff. Alternatively, drizzle a little olive oil and lemon juice, pumpkin seed or sesame oil.
